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This article is part of Business Ideas Series. If you would like to explore 60+ business ides, please visit this page What is Graphi...

This article is part of Business Ideas Series. If you would like to explore 60+ business ides, please visit this page

What is Graphic Designing?

A graphic designer
visualizes the concepts and produces a ‘hard’ copy of the thoughts in digital
format or paper sketch with the purpose of inspiring someone, generating a
sale, motivating a customer, attracting the reader or simply conveying a
message to its audience. The graphics may be in the form of a company logo,
sales brochure, product information, marketing flyer, magazine page,
advertisement contents or management reports.

How Much
Earning with Graphics Designing?

Depending upon your
skill level and market exposure, there is a wide range of salary which you can
earn from graphics designing. A less literate who has learned the basics at his
own may be able to earn a few hundred dollars each month whereas a university graduate
in the right domain with the right skill set may have starting monthly salary
of $3500 and will get increased
$45,000 and $55,000 in the US. For further details about earning visit Bureau of Laborwebsite.

Pre-requisites
to Become a Graphics Designer

If your career plan
is join a professional organization and continue your career growth in Graphics
Designing, you might need to undergo respective graduation program or achieve
certification in certain design domain. However if you are thinking to work as
freelancer (working for your own), you don’t need any academic certifications.
You can launch your solo consultancy business by persistently watching YouTube
videos (typically 30 minutes a day) until you become a guru and easily create
impressive work to attract customers on fiverr.com or upwork.com

Initial
Investment to Start:

It depends on how far
you want to go in Graphics Designing domain. For amateurs, there are plenty of
free options available (covered in later part of this article) however for
professional large scale work you have to purchase professional software such
as Adobe®, CorelDraw®, Maya ® etc.

Once you are
confident about your creativity and skills, you can proceed for making accounts
on global service platform such as Fiver and Upwork:

oFiverr: This is one of the largest
platforms where you can earn minimum five dollars (fiver company name comes from
this fact) for basic work (logo design, internet marketing, graphics etc.) and
the highest you can charge your customer can be in thousands. Want to know more
about Fiverr? Check this Complete
Guide On how to Make Money on Fiverr.
The guide covers signing up, creating profile, setting up your services (gigs)
and promoting your work.

oUpwork: Upwork is a well-known online community
where individuals get connected with the businesses and collaborate remotely.
You need to create compelling profile offering suitable service charges to
attract businesses. If you get hired by any business and you deliver the
services up to the mark, your “ratings” will increase which will lead to more
business collaborations, means more money for you.

Joining Facebook groups is an awesome way to
learn from others, ask questions and get answers, collaborate with businesses,
get exposed to new techniques and enjoy many other learning benefits. Below are
some groups you may consider to join:

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About Author: Junaid Tahir is a telecom engineer, program manager, an analyst and author. His work has been published in several countries in magazines and websites. Junaid cares about peace-and-prosperity-for-all and economic empowerment. If you care about these causes too, please share this article via your Facebook, WhatsApp or Twitter.